There are very few times
one can say that they have had the greatest or grandest moment in their life,
however there are places where the environment or the actual experience of
being in that location is so great it lays within our memories forever. For me
one such moment occurred while I lived in Iceland. Every summer during the week
of the solstice in the city of Hafnarfjörður at a place called the Viking village,
“The Viking Village is
small and personal family business in the restaurant and hotel business. It is
located in Hafnarfjörður a lovely town by the sea and our facilities have
ocean front views” (http://fjorukrain.is/en/about-us-3/), they
celebrate by recreating what life was like during the time of the first
settlers of Iceland called Viking Festival in English. (at least they did while
I lived there). While visiting the festival my family went to the restaurant that
is located just adjacent to the festival called Fjörugarðurinn, here the food
was prepared and presented to the best recreated style of the first settlers,
one of the items on the menu is Íslandsdiskur höfðingjans með hákarli, harðfisk, síld, rúgbrauði og
súrmat (Þorramatur) (http://fjorukrain.is/matsedill/)
which translated is Viking starter with shark, dried haddock, herring, ray
bread, assorted whey pickled food (Thorri food) and taste of Black death.
On top of the recreated foods they had minstrels sining traditional Icelandic songs
and telling traditional stories. One of the more memorable moments was when one
of the people dressed up came to our table and threw his knife into the table in
front of my brother and told him he would eat his vegetables. This restaurant experience
is also the greatest one for me due to the fact that when I asked how they made
the food they had the cook come out and explane hoe some of the more
traditional foods where made.
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